[sdiy] Cutting rotary encoder shafts??

[Ken Stone]

>>I must say I have never gotten a dremel rotary saw to stay together longer
>>than a couple of seconds. You can't hold the tool steady enough. Makes great
>>"old cowboy movie bullet ricochet" noises too. There must be a skill to it,
>>else they wouldn't exist. I stopped trying.

one trick is to load two disks into the dremel at once. The result is
stronger, though the cut is wider.

As for the little metal saws, be very careful. I've had them bite into the
job, and when that happens, they actually orbit the work piece, and if there
is a bit of you (a thumb for example) there, it will quite happily leave a
nice deep cut.

Been there, done that, and only with a tiny battery powered tool. since
then, and especially as I now have a mains powered tool, the vice does the
holding.

Ken
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